Illustrations 



The objects illustrated in figures 8 through 16 are 

 representative of the principal artifacts found in the 

 Clay Bank excavations. The dating given below 

 refers to the objects' period of manufacture; their 

 terminal or throwaway date is determined by their 

 archeological contexts, which are indicated by area 

 and stratum designations. (See p. 11, Archeological 

 Stratigraphy, and fig. 3.) 



FIGURE S 



1. Marly fragment from small plate, English delft- 

 ware, decorated in blue with chinoiserie design, 

 probably of Chinamen, rocks, and grasses. The 

 background color has a very pale-blue tint, 

 unlike the pure whites and pinkish whites that 

 are generally associated with London pieces of 

 the period. The closest parallel for this sherd 

 is in the Bristol City Museum in England 31 and 

 is attributed to Brislington. An example of the 

 style, attributed to Lambeth and dated 1684 is 

 illustrated by F. H. Garner in his English Delft- 

 ware; 32 but unlike the Clay Bank fragment, the 

 central decoration does not reach to the marly. 

 About 1680-1690. E4. (Fig. 15, no. 6.) 



2. Handle fragment from chamberpot or posset 

 pot, English delftware, decorated with irregular 

 horizontal stripes in blue. The handle is pro- 

 nouncedly concave in section, and lacking 

 ornament on its edges (as usually occurs on posset 

 pots) 33 a chamberpot identification seems most 

 likely. The form ranges from the late 17th 

 century at least through the first quarter of the 

 18th. E2. 



3. Mug or jug, lower body and base fragment only, 

 English delftware, white inside, with manganese 

 stipple on exterior. Probably Southwark, first 

 half of the 17th century. E4. (Fig. 15, no. 4). 



4. Basin, English delftware, wall fragments only 

 illustrated (for full reconstruction see fig. 15, no. 

 1), the glaze, pale blue, ornamented with central 

 chinoiserie design of similar character to no. 1. 

 The wall was decorated with narrow horizontal 



3 > W. J. Pountney, Old Bristol Potteries (Bristol, 1920), pi. 3 

 (lower left), and p. 37. 



32 F. H. Garner, English Delftware (London, 1948), pi. 2dB. 



33 For a posset pot with these handle characteristics attributed 

 to Brislington, 1706-1734, see W. M. Wright, Catalogue of 

 Bristol and West of England Delft Collection, (Bath: Victoria Art 

 Gallery, 1929), pi. 3. 



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bands and a wide foliate zone below the everted 

 rim. The bowl is important in that it is one of 

 the earliest extant examples of the simple wash- 

 basin form that was to become common throuyh- 

 out the 18th century. About 1680-1690. Illus- 

 trated sherds A3, C3, F2. 



5. Basal fragment of plate, tin-glazed earthenware, 

 decoration of uncertain form in two tones of blue 

 outlined in black. Portuguese? 17th century. 

 C4. 



6. Base fragment from globular jug, English brown 

 salt-glazed stoneware, probably from same vessel 

 as no. 7. Late 17th or early 18th century. C3. 



7. Neck fragment from bulbous mug or jug, dec- 

 orated within multiple grooving, 34 ware and 

 date as above. A3. 



8. Tyg fragments, black lead-glazed, red-bodied 

 earthenware (sometimes called Cistercian ware), 

 the body decorated with multiple ribbing. (For 

 reconstruction see fig. 15, no. 7.) Such drinking 

 vessels were made with up to six or eight handles, 

 but two was the most usual number and those 

 were placed close together as indicated here. The 

 form was prevalent in the period 1600-1675, 

 though taller examples were common during 

 the preceding century. 35 A3, C3. 



9. Tobacco pipe bowl, pale-brown ware, burnished, 

 and decorated with impressed crescents and rou- 

 letted lines, local Indian manufacture? 36 Second 

 half of 17th century. E4. 



10. Body fragment of cord-marked Indian cookine 

 pot, Stony Creek type, 37 light red-tan surface 

 flecked with ocher and with a localized grey core. 

 Middle Woodland. Bl. 



11. Projectile point, buff quartzite, broad stem and 

 sloping shoulders. Late archaic. E9. 



3 < For shape parallel ( but not body) see Tutter's Neck, fig. 1 8, 

 no. 21. 



35 Barnard Rackham. Mediaeval English Pottery (London: 

 1948), pi. 94. Barnard Rackham, Catalogue of th 

 Collection of Pottery and Porcelain (Cambridge, 1935), no. 20, 

 pi. 3A. 



Griselda Lewis. .1 Pieture Book of English Pottery (London. 

 1956), fig. 23. 



36 J. C. Harrington, "Tobacco Pipes from Jamestown." 

 Archeological Society of Virginia, Quarterly Bulletin (Richmond: 

 June 1951). fig. 4. 



3 " I am indebted to Dr. B. ( M< ( ary "f the Archeological 

 Society of Virginia for the identification of the prehistoric 

 Indian artifacts. CLIFFORD Evans, "A Ceramic Study of 

 Virginia Archeolog) Bureau oi American Ethnology Bulle- 

 tin 160; Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1955), p. 69. 



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